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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	love_v	see_v	15,121	5	3.6465	3	true

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A65765	The happines of peace and vnitie dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, and humbly presented to the Honorable House of Commons, for their incouragement to the perfection of that good worke of peace and vnion in the church and state / by E.W. Gent.	E. W., Gent.	1641 (1641)	Wing W18; ESTC R2666	5,320	14

your greatest safetic and their prosperitie your greatest honour and felicitie and this is that which will make your bed easie when you shall possesse the just title to the Crowne with the love of your people and the continuance of it with the willing applause of the Subject is the highest way to a blessing and the hopes of this is that which hath brought me to renue and confirme the covenant that your Majestie made with me from your first entrance to the Crowne and because you could not sware by no greater swore by the Eternall God that you would defend me and at the first of our contract we made but one your power and all that you had was mine to defend me and to doe me good but there have been some of late that have set your Majesty against me I speak it in the name of many and have perswaded you to beate me and to force to obedience though of my selfe willing to obey being of a nature sooner wonne than compelled and this is that which hath sore troubled me yet this is not all but when an oath with an c. was put upon me it wounded me for by the oath that I had taken already I was bound fast enough but the truth is when these things befell me I was afraid that some evill minded men like Potiphers wife seeing mine innocency and more faithfull to you my husband than themselves had complained against me without cause and this I could hardly beare for by this means our great Adversaries Devill and Pope have laboured to sow contentions and jealousies between us and this is that which will be a means to undoe us both when your Majestie which is become my head and husband speaks kindly unto me and is ruled by those that love us both my heart is inflamed with a love unto you but when your Ministers abuse your Majesties kindnesse and become tyrants to their fellow servants yea when they shall goe about to justifle themselves and men like themselves and lay all their villany upon your Majesty this I can hardly beare for by this means I am deprived of my marriage-bed and of my wonted societie and am troubled in my selfe when I see your Majestie which is become my head husband strange unto me but I hope every former breach will unite love the stronger knowing that a little shaking of the tree will preferre the growth of it wherefore being now reconciled to your Commons feast live love and die together and be more firme in your neare union than ever divided in your heartie unkindnesse so shall you meet in the end and never part But be like Rachell and Leah which two built up the house of Israel You are now in the way and it is said Gen. 24.27 That whilst the fervant of Abraham was in the way God blessed him the same God blesse you and for your comfort and incouragement know by so much shall you grow to perfection by how much you draw neare to unitie I confesse had the Balaacks and Balaams of our times been so evill as they would have been and intended to have been the world had been over-run with evill but such is the wisdome of GOD that oft-times he hides from evill men those times and seasons that might prove prejudiciall to his people so when Saul sought for David It is true the good God might have destroyed the Balaams and wicked Sauls of our times but many times he will not for God hath something more for them to doe and it is not so much glory to God to take away wicked men as to use their evill to his owne holy purposes and gaineth many times more glory by working good by evill instruments than by destroying of them presently in their wicked purposes and this use I make of it that it fussiceth a good man that he resisteth the evill actions of the wicked whilst they love their persons I confesse our Balaams and our Sauls had gone very farre but in some things God permits in indignation not for that he gives leave to the act but that he gives a man over to the sin in the act and yet this sufferance implyes not favour but judgement and God is contented the 〈◊〉 should wi … himselfe credit sometimes where he means to judge I confesse our Sauls and our Balaams like Sisera trusted in their strength but like Sisera many of them run away yet in spight of them all the Lord hath made a seasonable and hopefull provicion for his people and to that purpose the wife God in spight of our Sauls have brought your Majestie and Commons together It is too true by the means of our Sauls your Majestie became to your Commons as the Angel was to Gideon and so made them afraid but like the Angel that made Gideon afraid your Majestie hath returned to their comfort and as God as he useth where he loves he imployes and like Christ himselfe you are now willing to enjoy them by a willing contract and not by a ravishment and by this meanes you appeare now to your people like Moses who had more glory by his vale than by his face and I doe not doubt but when all things shall be made manifest but that one faithfull David will be in more account with your Majestie than either the Sauls or Balaams whatsoever It is time by the meanes of our Sauls the Crowne is become full of cares and your Majestie having been almost even wearied by them would faine now take some rest and that your Majestie may rest I will take unto mee that large promise Isa 45.10 and with Ja●●●● will give God no rest untill he have blessed you Thus saith the Lord the holy One of Israel and his Maker Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes and concerning the worke of my hands command yee me nay that is not all that I will doe for you but I will commend you to the Honourable House of Commons and tell them Right Wise Right Worthy you see with Abraham his Majestie is willing to resigne to winne the affections of his people by his justice in government the thing that I shall desire of you for his Majestie is but this that your Soveraigne which is become your head being full of care and troubles that you would make his bed easie for him that notwithstanding your care in removing some that are about him if there should still remaine any about him that should goe about to trouble him againe the thoughts of you when he wakes may make him lye downe againe and take another nap And the doing of this for him will bring him from Marah to Elim and you will become as sweet and pleasant to the Church and the three Kingdomes as the tree that God shewed to Moses which when he cast into the waters the waters were made sweet which formerly were bitter and then shall the Church of God sing the song of Moses Exod. 15. I know that thankfulnesse and love can doe more with good men than merit or necessitie and methinkes I see you like our Saviour who thirsted after the salvation of mankinde and I beleeve it was not so much out of drinesse as out of love Goe you and doe so likewise knowing that modest beginnings and hopefull proceedings makes happy endings And for your comfort know that God whose battels you fight will provide a due reward of your patience and for my owne part I shall doe with you as Jeptha did with his sword and whilst he used it trusted to God and with Job will be willing to wait the appointed time for the accomplishing of those things that concernes both the good of Church and Common-wealth and so I commend the saying of Salo●on unto you Eccle. 9.10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to doe doe it with thy might for there is no worke nor device nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave whither thou goest FINIS

THE HAPPINES OF PEACE AND VNITIE DEDICATED TO THE KINGS most Excellent MAIESTIE And humbly presented to the Honorable House of Commons for their incouragement to the perfection of that good worke of Peace and Vnion in the Church and State By E. W. Gent. ECCLES 4.9 10 11 12. Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labour For if they fall the one will lift up his fellow but woe to him that is alone when he falleth for he hath not another to help him up Againe if two lie together then have they heate but how can one be warme alone And if one prevaile against him two shall withstand him and a threefold cord is not easily broken Printed in the Yeare 1641. THE HAPPINES OF PEACE AND VNITIE Dedicated to the KINGS most Excellent MAIESTIE SIR BEsides my sorrowes which pressed me very sore and remaineth still upon me the troubles and griefe that fell upon me for the lamentable breaches in the Church and State and for your sacred Majestie and hopefull off-spring filled up my sorrowes and in my thoughts I was grieved that those feares and desolations fell out in your dayes I confesse charitie suspects not and the best minds thinks the least hurt and the freer a man is from vice in himselfe the more charitable he is of others and this is that which hath proved formerly prejudiciall to your Majestie But had your Majestie been the first or the best that had been misled misinformed or ill rewarded it would be an hard thing to command patience but griefe is asswaged either by precedents or examples It is true of late dayes your Majestie being misinformed against some of your best Subjects your Majestie thought to have dealt with them as Joseph thought to have dealt with Marie and so put them away farre from you but with Marie they travailing as it were with childe and that that which they travailed withall might not appeare an illegitimate but remaine innocent the onely wise God sent as it were an Angell unto you I meane your late Petitioners at York to let you see that like Marie they being contracted unto you in love they have not as yet defiled their marriage bed but remaine like Marie faithfull to their head and Soveraigne And your Majestie having beene formerly seduced by false opinions from others against them I hope you will now be reduced unto them and by them by true perswasions and that you may be so the onely wise God that gave your Majestie your being and so knew you better than your selfe hath dealt with your Majestie as he did with Adam in paradice and so hath provided you a meet helper when with Adam you thought no need of it nor desired it and your Majestie yeelding as Adam did in sparing a superfluous rib for to make him a meet helper will become a great gainer for your Majestie shall nor onely lose those who may be well spared but you will gaine to your selfe and your posteritie a meet helper that will indeavour by all lawfull means to ease you of many burdens that otherwise might have laine heavie upon you and this helper is many members of that body whereof your Majestie is become the head and considering their paines and labour in love you should doe them injustice if you should suffer any to accuse them I hope there is none or will be none neare you if neare you yet dares not to ingrosse your favours any more to their owne advantage whereby your good Subjects may be bereaved of those benefits that ought to be common to all as for your Commons they goe not about to steale your favours but to purchase them legally and are become unto you as Abrahams servant was to his Master who would not either eate or drinke untill he had done his Masters busines and I dare say if your Commons as your late Monopolists and others had or did seeke themselves or their owne advantages more then the good of King and Kingdome they would have beene wearied after so much labour before now but methinkes I see your Commons following the counsell of God Gen. 3.23 24. and God having brought your Majestie and them together they now say as Adam said Let us be but one and that it may be so they are willing not onely for a time to be separated from their lawfull and domestick imployments but even to for sake all and run many hazards to cleave onely to your Majestie in a solemne contract wherefore to make up the contract methinkes I see you to them as Rebecca was to the servant of Abraham who asking water made haste and drew water for his Camels also It may be to make up this match you must with Isaac part with something that was formerly neare unto you and who will not be contented to spare a part to save the rest being done it will prove to your Majestie as comfortable and welcome as Rebecca was into Isaacks tent and the Text saith And Isaac brought her into his Mother Sarahs tent and took Rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her and Isaac was comforted after his Mothers death This happie match being made it would not onely refresh your people but make glad your heart in time of feares and dangers It is true there are many that have brought your Majestie into troubles and feared dangers and the more too blame they for leaving your Majestie having brought you into them It is true there are many with Orpha seeing your troubles have left you but your Commons like Ruth are resolved to stick close unto you and will indeavour to helpe you out of them if with David you will be advised by them who blessed God for the seasonable counsell of a woman when he was upon a desperate designe judge then of their loves and affections to your Majestie by yours to them and then tell me whether they doe not truely love you doubtles yes accounting their lives not deare unto them so that they may but finish their work with joy and so accomplish their good ends concerning you and I doubt not but that I speak it in the name of many and in truth by your late yeelding and free expression you have stollen me from my selfe yea and am now wounded within me and like Moses who was wounded in himselfe and could hardly indure to look upon God when he descended in mercy It is true there is nothing ingageth a soule to God or a subject to a King as the appearance of love this made Moses to say How dreadfull is thy place O God and this is that which hath stollen me from my selfe so that now I am no more my owne but yours yea by this returne of yours to your people you will winne them to obedience with kindnesse and by doing so you will make good that which you were sent for whose care ought to be imployed for the good of your Subjects knowing that their love is